11th Edition Launch Box Astartes Models Possibilities

[jaxom]

6 hours ago, Tacitus said:

Battle Forces are all theme and don't have to balance like Combat Patrols.  Battle Forces/Boxes will be all flavor with no attention paid to playability.   Sometimes they're called Deathwing Assault, and sometimes they're called Ravenwing Army Box Force but Its mostly larger points wise than a Combat Patrol and fully thematic.  25 Terminators.  20 Jump Troops and 20 Phobos.  20 yellow HINTS and 10 Bolternators. 

Seems like launch boxes are Battle Forces using that definition.

[DemonGSides]

Launch boxes as in something like Leviathan are just that; Boxes of pretty much entirely new sprues that are then bundled with the core rules and maybe some other doo-dads like dice and rulers.

 

Battleforce specifically is a collection of sprues without any extra rules information that are sold together in a set, previously almost exclusively at Christmas-time but in 10th that was expanded and now they are released kinda whenever, usually alongside a codex but not bundled with a codex and have whatever the new unit for the faction is for this edition; Death Guard got this with the new Lord of Poxes and a bunch of other kits.  As mentioned they're usually themed around something and given a name; Cadian Defense Force or something like that when it was Two Dorns and a 20man+Command Squad.  Tacticus thinks that these are cobbled together out of 'unsold kits' in a factory; they aren't, that makes 0 logistical sense and no company is going to pay people to break down boxes to then put back into their distribution system for bundling into another box.  They are most likely print to whatever specifications that GW wants for numbers and then distributed.

 

Army Boxes are usually built around new releases; something like the DKoK box that came out for Guard this edition, or the Kroot box that came out or the Blood Angel or Space Wolves boxes that came out that bundle a couple of new units with a Premium Codex and some Premium data cards.

 

Combat Patrols are Combat Patrols.

Edited 16 hours ago by DemonGSides

[jaxom]

The next launch box will consist of new kits and be organized around a theme. Presumably the Marine half will also contain the models to make a new Combat Patrol.

[Tacitus]

17 hours ago, jaxom said:

Seems like launch boxes are Battle Forces using that definition.

There was no theme to Leviathan.  Some Terminators, some Infernusators, Sternguard, two characters, only one of which can join the terminators, a solitary Gravis character that can't join anything on the list, a power armored character that can never join anything and a gunboat Dread.  There's zero theme there beyond some weird stuff tossed on top of the new recipe for a combat patrol.  The closest you come are the Terminators + Sternguard starting a First Company theme that then... dies.